The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19
MlSCELLANE

In New York City there. are said to
be 5000 families who receive help from
charitable associations and the city.
"A wonderful gold mine has been
discovered in Sonora, Mex. The miners
get pure metal by breaking the quartz
with hammers.
The double-turret ship Trafalgar.
which is the largest armor-clad that has
ever been built at Portsmouth, England,
is to be ready for launching next Sep
TENDER. She was only begun last
January.
"A farmer near Waldron, No, has
healthy four-months-old pig that has
two feet on eacl: leg, and on each foot
five toes. Such breed of pigs would
be profitable in community partial to
picked pig s-feet.-St Louis Post.
The London Christian World rightly
says that ''the promise to pay for a
newspaper is neither more nor less
sacred than promise to pay for farm. :"
On. B. Dear reader, have you paid for
your paper?- United Presbyterian.
The candied sweet potato is a Phil
adelphia confectionery. 1t is nothing
but sweet potatoes carefully boiled and
quartered and then candied in boiling
sirup, but it is said to be dainty and
tender and of delicious flavor.
"A mine of beryls is new find in
Connecticut The beryls already taken
out include the variety known as golden
beryls, and rank as precious stones
only two places lower than diamonds
There are also other brilliant colors
found in this mine.-H0rttord Courdqt
Berlin is to have new Roman
bath-house on a grand scale and fur
nished with all ancient and modern
luXuries. Among the novel features
will be a laundry in which guests can
have their clothes washed and ironed
while they are bathing.
An elderly gentleman who delights
in calculations contributes this: '.If the
immortal George Washington, when he
was forty-eight years of age, had stepped
into railroad Office and pawned his
little Ratchet for a ticket to the planet
Mars, he would at the rate of fifty miles
an hour, have arrived there this year. :"
st. Adams Messenger.
The coast of Norway is sinking
gradually, while that of Sweden is
emerging more and more, and the Bal
tic is becoming shallower. landmarks
made on the Swedish coast by the cele-
brated naturalist Linn@us. at the be-
ginning of the eighteenth century, show
that this unheaval raises that coast about
four feet in the course of a century.
-Twelye-year-old James Manlev, of
North Hastings, while out in the woods
with an axe and dog, came upon big
buck. The dog started in pursuit, the
deer slipped on the ice and his antlers
became entangled in some brush, and
Jimmy, rushing up, killed the deer with
one blow of the axe. He is the proud
est boy in Canada. Montreal Witness.
There was missionary concert at
Rockland church the other evening,
and among other things was a paper on
missionary work read by young lady:
When she had finished, the leader of
the meeting said: 1--WE will now sing
'Hallelujah, IT'S Done " Whereat
everybody smiled. -Rockland Courier
Gazette.
Prof Rogers, of Waterville College
Maine, has recently compared fourteen
of the most trustworthy thermometers
in the town with his standard instru-
ment. Tests were made at six grades
of temperature, or eighty-four tests in
all, and in only four of these were the
town thermometers correct. In eighty
cases they were all wrong from one
fourth of degree to four degrees, while
one instrument was eleven degrees out
of the way.
Luke Lawson's dog barked at Allen
Ballantyne as he was going to school
He went home and got a revolver, and
when the dog baraed at him again
fired. The ball went wide of the dog,
but crashed through window and
struck Mrs. Lawson in the breast as she
sat rocking her baby. She lived but a
few moments. Young Ballantyne told
his father what had happened, and the
old man handed his son over to the au-
thorities. This was at Lake George,
n. b.
"A Norwegian engineer, W. c. Mol
Ter, has found that reindeer hair and
skin possesses remarkable buoyancy;
and when the unshorn skin is used as a
life-belt, it has the advantage over cork
of warming the wearer while in the
water. He attributes great value to
suits made from reindeer hair, one of
which of the weight of pound may
keep a man. from drowning, while it
furnishes greater protection from cold
than Oilskin and other materials.
How 1t Struck Him.
1t was a little newly-arrived sister